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Heard of a very fpirited farmer at Carlow, 

 a Mr. Hamilton, on whom I fhould have call- 

 ed, but was told that he was abfent. He has 

 gone fo much into the turnip hufbandry as to 

 have 100 acres in a year, and 8 or 10 acres of 

 cabbages ; fows them much on pared and 

 burnt land} keeps by their means a vaft flock 

 of cattle ; flail feeds many bullocks, buying 

 ilraw for litter in order to make dung ; befides 

 which he buys all the dung he can, and burns 

 much lime, taking in fhort every means to 

 keep his lands clean and in good heart. Such 

 an example ought to be powerful in creating 

 imitators, but I could not find it had any fuch 

 effect among the common farmers. 



July 9th, left Brownfhill, and taking the 

 road to Laughlin-bridge, called on Mr. James 

 Butler at Ballybar, a very adive and intelli- 

 gent farmer upon a confiderahle fcale. H® 

 has generally 4 or 5 acres of cabbages, which 

 he ufes for his fat wethers of four years old; 

 the produce of them he finds greater, and the 

 fheep too like them better than turnips. He 

 has fometimes 20 acres of turnips, and hoes 

 them all. This year none. — It is a fign the 

 cultivation is not well understood in a coun- 

 try, when a man has one year 20 acres, and 

 another none. A principal part of the ad- 

 vantage of the confumption is loft, if the cat- 

 tle fyftem is not regularly arranged with an 

 eye to the turnip crop. 



Mr. Butler buys every year 40 year old 

 beafts, at from 30s. to 40s. Keeps them till 



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